Small Business Accounting Software

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Accounting is an essential area of a small business and software can often streamline the accounting process (or sometimes complicate it). Tracking your cash flow, revenues, and expenses, and ensuring your customers pay on time can be facilitated with the right software solution.

Quickbooks
While Quickbooks is the most popular accounting software, it can be difficult to run without training. Fortunately Intuit, the makers of Quickbooks has an excellent community forum where experts can help with troubleshooting.

Peachtree
Peachtree is an alternative accounting software to Quickbooks. Peachtree helps you record customer payments, create budgets, and track sales, inventory, and expenses. It also provides 100+ reports and financial statements.

Outright
Outright is a free online bookkeeping application that tracks income and expenses from credit cards, invoices, and receipts. It also helps with taxes with deadline reminders and support for deductions.

Freshbooks
Freshbooks is an online tool that helps you create and track invoices to your customers.

GNU Cash
A free opensource accounting software. While it is free, it may still have many bugs and is not as reliable as paid software.

Pulse
Pulse is an online tool that helps manage and track small business cash flow.

Less Accounting
Less Accounting is an online-based accounting software that focuses on simplicity and small business accounting. It also allows you to create invoices and track miles.

Cashboard
An online tool for tracking billable hours and creating invoices. Cashboard has a free version for limited use and paid version for unlimited use.

Bill4Time
Another online tool that facilitates tracking of billable hours for service providers.

Articles

Free Full Version of Quickbooks Simple Start (Jumpup)
Intuit provides a basic version of Quickbooks for small start ups. This software will provide you all of the basic accounting needs of a new small business.

Choose the Right Accounting App (PC Magizine)
Discusses what kind of features you should look for in accounting software and includes reviews of the top programs.

Why accounting software is a must-have for most businesses (Microsoft)
Why you should use accounting software for your business.

8 Reasons to Ditch Your Shoebox Accounting System (About)
Gives reasons why you should use accounting software for your small business.

Which Accounting Software is Best for You? (Entrepreneur)
Factors to consider when choosing accounting software.